Sovereign AI Compute and AI Platforms Offered by Telcos

Operators build GPU infrastructure, national-language LLMs and AI platforms and sell them to enterprises, developers and government.

LLM

0named models

402candidates

2deployments

2in Indonesia

Named Models

The research names no model for this use case.

Where this comes from

Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.

Who Runs It

production, 1planned, 1

Telkom Indonesia (TelkomGroup)Country: IndonesiaAIcosystem: AI CoE, Telkomsel AI, NeutraDC Neutra Compute and a Bahasa Indonesia LLM (unnamed); solutions including pricing analytics, traffic management, legal document review and Pijar essay gradingVendor: Telkom Indonesia (in-house)productionDate4 Jun 2026Launched; no results statedEvidence: company statementConfidence: lowSource: katadata.co.id

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison with NVIDIACountry: IndonesiaNext-generation Sahabat-AI built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models; distributed AI Grid; Lintasarta AI cloudVendor: NVIDIAplannedDate21 Mar 2026AI Grid in build; model in preparationEvidence: company statementConfidence: lowSource: telecomtv.com

Where this comes from

Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.

Candidate Models

SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, SEA average

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. SEA average and per-language (incl. Indonesian) scores for open-weight models. Higher is better. Showing 10 of 11.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen) maintainer-run73.86

Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen) maintainer-run73.55

gemma-3-27b-itGoogle maintainer-run64.54

Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-ITAI Singapore maintainer-run64.35

gpt-oss-20bOpenAI maintainer-run60.64

Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMeta maintainer-run60.44

Qwen3-8BAlibaba (Qwen) maintainer-run60.33

GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai (Zhipu) maintainer-run53.76

Gemma-3-4B-itGoogle maintainer-run47.84

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3BNVIDIA maintainer-run46.89

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Nemotron-SEA-LION-v4.8-120B-A12BAI Singapore, LLMReleasedSep 2026open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

Nemotron-SEA-LION-v4.8-30B-A3BAI Singapore, LLMReleasedSep 2026open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-ITAI Singapore, LLMReleasedMay 2026open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

Qwen3.6-35B-A3BAlibaba (Qwen), LLMReleasedApr 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA, LLMReleased2026open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3BNVIDIA, LLMReleased2026open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

gpt-oss-120bOpenAI, LLMReleasedAug 2025open weightsIndonesian statedhas scoreslast 18 months

Granite 4.2 8BIBM, LLMReleasedSep 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

Hy4-previewTencent, LLMReleasedAug 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

GLM-5.3Z.ai (Zhipu), LLMReleasedAug 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

Showing 10 of 402. All models of this class

Where this comes from

Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Use Case

Industry: telecom
Model classes: LLM
Benchmarks or datasets: not in the notes
Regulatory notes: Surat Edaran Menkominfo 9/2023 Etika Kecerdasan Artifisial, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika (now Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital)Sovereign AI compute and AI platforms offered by telcos is an AI-based service run by an electronic system operator, and the circular asks such operators to build and use AI on the values of inclusivity, transparency, humanity and security.
UU 27/2022 Pelindungan Data Pribadi, DPR and President of the Republic of Indonesia (administered by Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital)Sovereign AI compute and AI platforms offered by telcos processes personal data of subscribers, such as identity, location and usage records, so the controller needs a lawful basis, must protect the data and must honour data subject rights.
PP 71/2019 Penyelenggaraan Sistem dan Transaksi Elektronik, Government of the Republic of Indonesia (administered by Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital)Sovereign AI compute and AI platforms offered by telcos protects or hosts electronic systems, whose operators must run them reliably and securely and protect the data they hold.
Permenkominfo 5/2020 Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik Lingkup Privat, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika (now Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital)Sovereign AI compute and AI platforms offered by telcos is a digital service offered to users in Indonesia, so the private electronic system operator must register and meet this regulation's duties.

Where this comes from

From the industry tracks T08 to T10 of the research notes.

R&D Topics

Links to R&D topics are awaiting review.

Where this comes from

Which R&D topics would most change this use case. Drafted by Claude from the topic definitions and the use case; proposed until approved.

Incidents

xAI Reportedly Operated Unpermitted Gas Turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to Power Colossus 2 AI Data Center, Producing Air Pollution and NoiseUnited States, 2025-08-01, otherBeginning August 1, 2025, xAI reportedly began installing and later operating gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to power its Colossus 2 AI data center in Memphis.
New Jersey Regulators Found DataOne Operated 62 Unpermitted Natural-Gas Generators at Vineland AI Data CenterUnited States, 2026-07-29, otherIn July 2026, New Jersey inspectors found 62 unpermitted 2,000-kW natural-gas generators powering DataOne's Vineland data center, which has an agreement to provide AI computing power to Microsoft.

Where this comes from

Documented failures, harms or misuse in this kind of use, Indonesia first, then the region, then well-known cases elsewhere (AI Incident Database, OECD AI incidents monitor, reputable news). Not a claim about any deployment listed here.

In Neighbouring Countries

Singtel (RE:AI)Singapore, production, 2025-05-30RE:AI sovereign AI factory and AI cloud on NVIDIA infrastructure
Telekom Malaysia (TM)Malaysia, production, 2024-12-13Sovereign GPU-as-a-Service on NVIDIA GPUs in Tier-III data centres

Where this comes from

Documented deployments of this use case in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, each with its source.

Opportunities

Opportunities are awaiting review.

Where this comes from

Gaps found by rule in what the directory holds for this use case. Each is a proposal for review.

Links

IndustryTelecom12 use cases, 24 deployments

Use CaseSovereign AI Compute and AI Platforms Offered by TelcosTelecom

Modelsnone recorded

Who Runs It

Telkom Indonesia (TelkomGroup)In production, 4 Jun 2026

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison with NVIDIAPlanned, 21 Mar 2026

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Deployments 2

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison with NVIDIANext-generation Sahabat-AI built on NVIDIA Nemotron open models; distributed AI Grid; Lintasarta AI cloud, Indonesia Telkom Indonesia (TelkomGroup)AIcosystem: AI CoE, Telkomsel AI, NeutraDC Neutra Compute and a Bahasa Indonesia LLM (unnamed); solutions including pricing analytics, traffic management, legal document review and Pijar essay grading, Indonesia

Sources

telecomtv.com/content/ai/working-with-nvidias-nemotron-indo... https://www.telecomtv.com/content/ai/working-with-nvidias-nemotron-indosat-is-bringing-ai-closer-to-communities-across-the-archipelago-55226/amp/
katadata.co.id/digital/teknologi/6a2240bb9f345/telkom-rilis-... https://katadata.co.id/digital/teknologi/6a2240bb9f345/telkom-rilis-aicosystem-siap-garap-peluang-ai-lintas-industri

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Sovereign AI Compute and AI Platforms Offered by Telcos", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/tel-sovereign-ai-platforms/, records of October 2026.